Progressives are Retarded: It Is Science

More proof that Anonymous Conservative's r/K theory is on to something.

Scientists claim they can change your belief on immigrants and God – with MAGNETS

Using a technique called transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS), researchers safely shut down certain groups of neurones in the brains of volunteers.

The article and scientists don't really drive home the insight of that sentence. The way they turn faithful people with a healthy skepticism of immigration into atheists who see no problem from mass migration, is by shutting off the part of the brain that is involved in detecting a threat. This is understandable considering the brains of the scientists and journalists may be similarly damaged.

The Idiocracy Chooses The Form of the Destructor

Stuart Russell: Take a stand on AI weapons

The artificial intelligence (AI) and robotics communities face an important ethical decision: whether to support or oppose the development of lethal autonomous weapons systems (LAWS).

Technologies have reached a point at which the deployment of such systems is — practically if not legally — feasible within years, not decades. The stakes are high: LAWS have been described as the third revolution in warfare, after gunpowder and nuclear arms.

Autonomous weapons systems select and engage targets without human intervention; they become lethal when those targets include humans. LAWS might include, for example, armed quadcopters that can search for and eliminate enemy combatants in a city, but do not include cruise missiles or remotely piloted drones for which humans make all targeting decisions.

...LAWS could violate fundamental principles of human dignity by allowing machines to choose whom to kill — for example, they might be tasked to eliminate anyone exhibiting 'threatening behaviour'. The potential for LAWS technologies to bleed over into peacetime policing functions is evident to human-rights organizations and drone manufacturers.

The entire history of Man to this point has been a fight against lethal Nature. First it was killing predators such as lions, then fighting the elements with shelter, then fighting disease with medicine. Now Man is about to augment Nature with superior firepower.

How do you think it will end?

Not Only Brains

Poor people’s DNA is declining in quality, say scientists: Study reveals how stressful upbringings damage genes

Chemtrails Caused Malia's Asthma

President Obama is a believer in chemtrails, ancient astronauts, autism causing vaccines and more!

Obama says climate change is personal to him because daughter Malia had an asthma attack as a toddler

While making the case that higher temperatures lead to increases in wildfires, which send allergy-causing particulates into the air that can lead to greater and more serious incidents of asthma, the president recalled his own child's run-in with the disease as a toddler.

Ho Lee Fuk. Obama thinks higher temperatures causes wildfires! Dear Lord, the man has a 5-year child's understanding of science!

'While most Americans see climate change hitting their communities through extreme weather events – from more severe droughts and wildfires to more powerful hurricanes and record heat waves – there are other threats climate change poses to the American people,' the White House said in a fact sheet outlining the new public health campaign.

The percentage of Americans with asthma has 'more than doubled' in the last three decades, the fact sheet stated, 'and climate change is putting these individuals and many other vulnerable populations at greater risk of landing in the hospital.'

Most at risk for climate change related health problems are children, the elderly, the poor, people who are already sick 'and some communities of color,' the White House said.

Your President America!

Read A Book

Searching for Explanations: How the Internet Inflates Estimates of Internal Knowledge

Here we show that searching the Internet for explanatory knowledge creates an illusion whereby people mistake access to information for their own personal understanding of the information. Evidence from 9 experiments shows that searching for information online leads to an increase in self-assessed knowledge as people mistakenly think they have more knowledge “in the head,” even seeing their own brains as more active as depicted by functional MRI (fMRI) images.

Daily Data explains the study:
Conclusion: Read a book.

Crimefacts: Poverty and Brain Size

Poverty shrinks brains from birth

The stress of growing up poor can hurt a child’s brain development starting before birth, research suggests — and even very small differences in income can have major effects on the brain.

Researchers have long suspected that children’s behaviour and cognitive abilities are linked to their socioeconomic status, particularly for those who are very poor. The reasons have never been clear, although stressful home environments, poor nutrition, exposure to industrial chemicals such as lead and lack of access to good education are often cited as possible factors.

In the largest study of its kind, published on 30 March in Nature Neuroscience1, a team led by neuroscientists Kimberly Noble from Columbia University in New York City and Elizabeth Sowell from Children's Hospital Los Angeles, California, looked into the biological underpinnings of these effects. They imaged the brains of 1,099 children, adolescents and young adults in several US cities. Because people with lower incomes in the United States are more likely to be from minority ethnic groups, the team mapped each child’s genetic ancestry and then adjusted the calculations so that the effects of poverty would not be skewed by the small differences in brain structure between ethnic groups.

Don't worry, they studiously avoided crime though.

Seen at Outside In.

Don't Signal Back

Is this ET? Mystery of strange radio bursts from space

The Stasi Strike Again

NYTimes readers are among the most ignorant people in America for a reason and that ignorance will only grow now that they've outsourced their thought policing to the intellectual wasteland that is Gawker.

The New York Times Terminates Contract With Razib Khan.